Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.
Interpretation
Beauty can be found in unexpected places and doesn't always require effort to appreciate.
In this quote, Ani Difranco emphasizes that beauty exists in both simplicity and the mundane aspects of life. It suggests that we should remain open to experiencing beauty in unconventional circumstances, such as a casual handshake or graffiti, highlighting the artistic elements of everyday moments.
In practice
This quote would be perfect for an art therapy session when discussing finding beauty in everyday life.
spring is super in the supermarkets and the strawberries prance and glow never mind that they're all kinda tart and tasteless as strawberries go meanwhile wild things are not for sale anymore than they are for show so i'll be outside, in love with the kind of beauty it takes more than eyes to know
I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.
and god help you if you are an ugly girl course too pretty is also your doom cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room and god help you if you are a pheonix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying back
I believe the act of giving birth to be the single most miraculous thing a human being can do and it is surely the moment when a lot of women finally understand the depth of their power. You think it can’t possibly be done, you think you can’t possibly take the pain, and then you do-—and afterward you look at yourself in a whole new way. If you can do that, you can do anything.
Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash _x000D_ a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past
In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.
[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically. Awareness of style as a problematic and isolable element in a work of art has emerged in the audience for art only at certain historical moments - as a front behind which other issues, ultimately ethical and political, are being debated.
If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?
My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.
It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
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